Business
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Allison | 1971 | Business Administration | Chairman, BB&T Corporation/Branch Banking & Trust Co |
| Max C. Chapman | 1966 | Economics | Former president and CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co |
| Warren Grice Elliott | 1867 | President of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |
| David Gardner | 1988 | English | Co-founder of The Motley Fool |
| Peaches Golding | 1976 | Biology | High Sheriff of Bristol, England, 2010-11 |
| Bowman Gray, Sr. | 1890 | Did not graduate | Former President and Chairman of R.J. Reynolds |
| William B. Harrison, Jr. | 1966 | Economics | Former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase |
| George Watts Hill | 1922 / Grad. | Commerce / Law | Banker and philanthropist |
| John Sprunt Hill | 1889 | Philosophy | Banker and philanthropist |
| Walter E. Hussman, Jr. | 1969 | Journalism | Publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock |
| Richard "Dick" Jenrette | 1951 | Founder of the Wall Street firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Chairman and CEO of world insurance leader The Equitable from 1990 to 1996 | |
| William Johnson | Grad. | Law | President and CEO of Progress Energy |
| Paul Kolton | 1944 | Journalism | Chairman of the American Stock Exchange. |
| Sallie Krawcheck | 1987 | Journalism | Chairman and CEO of Citigroup Global Wealth Management and former CFO of Citigroup Inc. |
| Jason Kilar | 1993 | Journalism and Business Administration | CEO of Hulu |
| Howard R. Levine | 1981 | Business Administration | Chairman of the board and CEO of Family Dollar |
| Scott Livengood | 1974 | Industrial relations | Owner and CEO of Dewey's Bakers and former CEO of Krispy Kreme |
| Hugh McColl | 1957 | Business administration | Former CEO of Bank of America |
| John Medlin | 1956 | Business administration | Former CEO of Wachovia |
| Allen B. Morgan, Jr. | 1965 | History | Founder and former CEO of Morgan Keegan & Company |
| Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III | 1967 | Business administration | Finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and a U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
| Julian Robertson | 1955 | Business administration | Founded the investment firm Tiger Management Corp. |
| Bill Ruger | 1940 | Did not graduate | Founded firearms manufacturer Sturm, Ruger |
| Pete Rummell | 1967 | Chemistry/English literature | Former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering and St. Joe Company |
| Marcus G. Smith | Did not graduate | Journalism | President and COO of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. |
| Ken Thompson | 1973 | American studies | Former Chairman and CEO of Wachovia |
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)